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untitled diptych / painting & drawing media on canvas / 60x 104 inches (60x 52 twice), 2024   /  60x104dpt24

Moses E Hoskins was born in 1953 in Iowa where he spent his youth and some time as an adult. He was educated in public schools followed by a checkered post-secondary education consisting of sporadic stints at a few colleges in the American midwest. (Clearly it was different then being in one's 20's in the 70's than it is now being in one's 70's during the 20's - but never mind.) Finally in 1981, a full decade after graduating from hi-skool, he earned a BFA from the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History at Iowa City. He did not attend grad school anywhere. - As a visual fine artist, his roots were in figurative rendering but he has worked abstractly since the mid 80’s.  

In 1988 Hoskins finally got around to fleeing to New York City as a better place, ostensibly, to not amount to anything. - He continues to remain there - living, working and showing his art wherever they will have it. - He exhibited regularly at OK Harris in NYC from 2000 until the gallery's noteworthy run of 45 years in SoHo came to an end in 2014.

Even with multiple grants from the Foundations Pollock-Krasner and Adolph & Esther Gottlieb in evident support of his quixotic efforts in painting, drawing & collage media - and despite a Yaddo residency, Hoskins was always acutely aware that a Big Deal Career was unlikely... He is not given to schmooz or 'magical thinking' and has never been naive regarding byzantine Political Machinery. - Don't get him started.

Currently Hoskins' work is included in White Columns Artist Registry (cyber), New York - and Robischon Gallery in Denver has a selection of his paintings in their inventory.